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“Patch Tuesday” is a Microsoft policy afaik, not a global one.

• mjevans 6y ago
  Yes, but knowing others, particularly in other companies, expect downtime on Tuesdays as a result, wouldn't you also pick the day everyone expects that downtime?
  • tedunangst 6y ago
    I think you have mismanaged your expectations.
  • arbitrage 6y ago
    you expect downtime as a normal matter of doing business? you can do better, my friend. you are worth better.
• Aaargh20318 6y ago
  Sure, but still strange to release this on a Thursday afternoon. This means that everyone who depends on OpenSSL needs to rebuild and test and will have an update ready on Friday afternoon in the best case. Who wants to roll out any kind of update to their production systems on a Friday afternoon ? That’s just asking for trouble.
  • qbasic_forever 6y ago
    On the other hand, this is a high severity issue in security critical code that has had huge exploits in the past (heartbleed). This is the kind of security patch a good ops team is expecting and ready to handle at a moment's notice. It's far less annoying to do a Friday afternoon update than deal with active exploits all weekend.